
I realize I've missed yet another weekly mix last week; as usual, work has been hectic, and I had to go out of town for a work meeting - really out of town, meaning the rock-and-tree landscape of northwestern Ontario, not really my comfort zone. For this week's mix, I'm going to return to a theme I did last year: songs inspired by literature/books/authors. If you're interested in what I chose last time, or want to check before you point out that I missed some obvious song, click here . One of my favourites in this [...]
I have got a bit slack on posting stuff on here, luckily James has been keeping up the blog rate. The Hunches really are quite good, well done to him. Recently I have been all over MySpace. It's obviously full of horrible problems still but I'm not quite sure how people used to hear new bands before it? Then again, I have no real idea how you would check train times before the Internet. Anyway some new local bands have found my ears somehow and hear they are. (Obviously local to me is Manchester, where are you? post [...]

I'm in one of those exhausted, used-up moods. With a bit of writer's block thrown in for grim measure. Blogs are a lot more work than I anticipated - I truly admire those who manage to blog everyday and yet have something substantial and interesting to say. I'm having one of those weeks where I just want to curl up with old music because all the newer stuff isn't inspiring me at all. I'm also still in the middle of cutting my 100-page thesis down into a 12-page paper to present at a conference next week. So I'm caught between [...]